Rabbits attack the food forest!

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How I defend against rabbits (and I'm not perfect, I should have double checked all my trees!). Life gets busy though, and mistakes were made...

So now... how can we maybe save some damaged trees using bridge grafts....

This doesn't mean fences are going up. It doesn't mean I will trap them (although I would if my family would eat them - but we really don't eat enough meat to do that). It means that if I TRULY believe I want an ecosystem, that part of that price is having animals be animals. So it doesn't become about "how do I eradicate them", but instead how do I mitigate their damage?
.. and mitigation doesn't mean elimination. It means that I need to be mentally okay with losing a tree now and then.

I'm either a hypocrite or I'm not. So part of the price of being attuned to my belief system, is that I need to accept where my belief system causes my food forest damage. Then I try to minimize it.

I could have done a better job this year. I will try to do better from now on. In the end, time is finite, and we can only do so much. I will use this information to re-evaluate my position on having a truly open and wild system. However so far my stance still hasn't changed. These guys do more good than harm, and I want them here. I just need to protect my trees better - specifically "higher" during large snow accumulation.

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